French Montana

February 23, 2015  "Don't believe everything you read," French Montana raps in the intro on Raekwon's new track with Busta Rhymes, the old school, piano and drum-driven "Wall to Wall." The Excuse My French rapper handles the chorus ("Her ass stacked up / Wall to wall") before the Wu-Tang legend storms in with his own verse, a short rap with fiery delivery. Stream the track below, and be sure to stick around for Busta's barnstormer of a closer. …Read on

December 28, 2014  If Diplo and Skrillex's jittery EDM mix was the intuitive way to remix Beyoncé's fiery "7/11," Detroit superproducer Detail decided to go in completely the opposite direction for his rework. …Read on

November 19, 2014  On Hudson Mohawke's new single, "Chimes," big-name rappers such as Future, Pusha T, Travi$ Scott, and French Montana team up for a heartfelt anthem about heartbreak and the clubbing you have to do to get over it. Honestly, it sounds like a bunch of rappers decided to remix a track from the Inception soundtrack, and we don't mean that as a diss. …Read on

July 29, 2014  For a guy who has referred to himself as the "rap game James Dean" (on "The Day It All Changed") and honed his performances on Warped Tour, G-Eazy doesn't have the most traditional hip-hop background. With his new B-side, "Say," the Bay Area rapper taps French Montana to take on the haters. …Read on

October 16, 2013  French Montana's latest single "Gifted" may feature the Weeknd, but it's really a Weeknd song with Montana grafted onto it — we don't even hear the song's star rap until 90 seconds in. Thus, it follows that the track's video hews to Abel Tesfaye's aesthetic, with the two singing from inside some makeshift warehouse cabaret that looks frankly unsafe for the various women who dance around the men. …Read on

October 15, 2013  One of the early indications that Miley Cyrus' 2013 was probably going to be unlike anything we've ever seen was a grainy video taken on an iPhone and uploaded to YouTube in mid-August. It showed Cyrus in the studio with the New York rapper French Montana singing along to what appeared to be a remix of Montana's bubbling street hit "Ain't Worried Bout Nothin" — complete with an entire Cyrus rap verse. …Read on

October 14, 2013  Using white people as a metaphor for cocaine is a well-worn trope of Southern hip-hop, but Migos breathed new life into that equation on their delirious Y.R.N. track "Hannah Montana," the upcoming single that cuts into their recent luxurious "Versace" video. In "Hanna Montana," Migos invoke Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff as Lizzie McGuire, Eminem, and Patrick Swazye in the first verse alone. …Read on

October 3, 2013  Cam'ron ft. Sen City, "Instagram Catfish"Wherein Killa Cam gets Internet topical over a sorta-tropical production (it sounds like something off Le1f's sensuous Tree House) that deals with the very curent and totally awkwarddddd phenomenon of people you meet on the Internet misrepresenting what they really look like. …Read on

May 29, 2013  First! The robots have won. Due to both the militarily mighty marketing campaign surrounding Random Access Memories and the glistening brilliance of that very same album, Daft Punk have conquered the Billboard 200. According to Nielsen SoundScan they sold 339,000 copies of their first full-length in eight years — that's nearly three times the number that 2005's Human After All has sold in total in the United States. …Read on